More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF ...

The Department of Basic Education is taking significant steps to combat period poverty among girl learners, ensuring access ...

Travel has a way of disrupting your comfort, resetting your compass, and confronting you with truths you can’t unsee. While ...

While affluent nations step back from humanitarian relief and economic development assistance, the world is on the verge of ...

In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has long been on screening, early diagnosis, and timely ...

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children. Africa’s population of more than ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Rapid population growth in some of Africa's poorest countries could put at risk future progress towards reducing global poverty and improving health, according to a report by the ...

A UNICEF report revealed on Thursday that over 19 percent of children globally live in extreme poverty, with the majority concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The organization urged ...

According to UNICEF, more than 400 million children globally live in poverty, missing out on at least two daily needs such as ...

Global Citizen’s year-long Scaling Up Renewables in Africa campaign, backed by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen ...

Extracting more fossil fuels is not the solution to energy poverty in Africa, as it would worsen the "climate crisis" for which Africans are already paying "with their livelihoods and their lives", ...

Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...